• "No one ever keeps them."
• "My longest was until 6 pm on January 1st."
• "I don't believe in them."
• "They don't do any good."  

This troubles me for a couple of reasons.  

First, overcoming sexual temptations or addictions is all about resolution. You never get to freedom and/or recovery without taking that first step of resolving to fight the battle. There may need to be a lot of additional steps in the process but it will not start without a resolution.  

You may have failed many times before and may even fail this time as well. I cannot count how many times I resolved to never look at pornography again and failed. I am just so thankful that I made the resolution this last time because it worked.  

Just remember the time it finally works can only start with a resolution to try.  

Second, resolution is a part of God's plan.  

Think of all the ways He gives us to start over. For example, we have:  

• new days
• Sabbath days
• new weeks
• new months
• new years 
• Sabbath years
• Jubilee years
• Christianity is being born again to live a new life.
• Repentance is a resolution to turn away from sin.  

What were Jesus's words to the woman caught in the very act of adultery?  

"Neither do I condemn you. Go now and leave your life of sin." (Luke 8:11)  

She had to make a resolution to accept Jesus' grace and start over.  

Make your resolution today for sexual purity and wholeness. Make it again tomorrow whether you were successful today or not. Purity, freedom, recovery, and wholeness in sexuality all start in the same way.  

Resolution.